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  2. Oishi (Philippine brand) - Wikipedia

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    Oishi, started in 1946 as Liwayway, [5] was originally a family-owned corn starch (Tagalog: gawgaw) and coffee repacking business. [1] The name of the business, "Liwayway," meaning "dawn" in English, was selected to reflect the optimism of the Philippines following the aftermath of World War II. [5]

  3. Coron Island - Wikipedia

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    Coron is the third-largest island in the Calamian Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about 170 nautical miles (310 km) southwest of Manila and is known for several Japanese shipwrecks of World War II vintage. Because of its unique ecological features, the entire ...

  4. Agriculture in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Corn/maize is the second most important crop in the Philippines. 600,000 farm households are employed in different businesses in the corn value chain. As of 2012 [update] , around 2.594 million hectares (6.41 × 10 ^ 6 acres) of land is under corn cultivation and the total production was 7.408 million metric tons (8.166 × 10 ^ 6 short tons ...

  5. Bukidnon - Wikipedia

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    Poverty incidence of Bukidnon 10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 43.55 2009 45.97 2012 49.00 2015 54.01 2018 27.56 2021 22.80 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Binaki, a type of steamed corn cake wrapped with corn husks is believed to have originated in Bukidnon Bukidnon is an agricultural economy. It is a major producer of rice, maize, sugar, coffee, rubber, pineapple, banana, tomato, flowers ...

  6. Universal Robina Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded on September 28, 1954 by John Gokongwei, Jr. [6] under the name Universal Corn Products (UCP) after Gokongwei decided to construct a corn milling plant to produce glucose and cornstarch. In 1961, Consolidated Food Corporation (later known as CFC Corporation) was established.

  7. Sweet corn - Wikipedia

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    Sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa), [1] also called sweetcorn, sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of maize grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn

  8. Japanese in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Their Japanese identity may take on extremes, some have completely lost their Japanese identity while others have "returned" to Japan, the homeland of their forebears. There is also a number of contemporary Japanese-mestizos, not associated with the history of the earlier established ones, born either in the Philippines or Japan.

  9. Ostrinia furnacalis - Wikipedia

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    The Asian corn borer is most commonly found throughout Asia and Southeast Asia. More specifically, it is located in China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Lao, Myanmar, and Cambodia. [5] There are also a limited number in the Solomon Islands, Africa, and parts of ...